Re: st: re: installing gam

I have now managed to get this working. My working directory was c:\data
which is where the file unzipped to. When I tried to run the example
program it said
GAMFIT failure, c:\ado\personal\gamfit.exe not found
So I copied the files into there from the data directory and it now works
fine. Not quite sure why it didn't try to read it from the current
directory but I don't suppose it matters since it now works!
Many thanks to those who responded with suggestions
Laura
On Thu, March 27, 2008 10:12 pm, Kit Baum wrote:
> Laura said
>
> I have now done this and tried to run the example in the help file
> but it
> just says
>
> unrecognized command: gam
>
> I have tried to find a command to let me check if it is in fact
> installed
> (as I'm sure I've done this before) but haven't been able to find it.
>
> Any suggestions as to why this might not be working?
>
>
> I just did
>
> ssc desc gam
> net get gam
> !unzip gam.zip
>
> and it inflated the zip-file in my current directory. At that point
>
> which gam
>
> shows that it is there. I can't run it, because my machine doesn't
> know what a DOS executable is. But it should be no problem to locate it.
>
> Remember that -net get- puts files in the current directory. The
> current directory is on the -adopath-, so if you unzip the file, it
> should be findable.
>
> Kit
>
>
> Kit Baum, Boston College Economics and DIW Berlin
> http://ideas.repec.org/e/pba1.html
> An Introduction to Modern Econometrics Using Stata:
> http://www.stata-press.com/books/imeus.html
>
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